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Mauritius said connected Monday (June 8, 2026) that it had not received immoderate connection from the Trump medication connected the Chagos Islands, aft the Telegraph reported that the White House was considering a program to bargain the islands from Mauritius.
“The Mauritian authorities has taken enactment of the accusation reported by the Telegraph. As astatine today, it has not received immoderate authoritative connection and has not been approached, either straight oregon indirectly, by the U.S. medication regarding a abstracted statement concerning Diego Garcia oregon the Chagos Archipelago,” it said successful a statement.
“Mauritius’s presumption remains unchanged: its sovereignty implicit the Chagos [Archipelago] is non-negotiable.” The Telegraph reported connected Sunday (June 7) that the program was among respective options being drafted by the White House, successful a insubstantial aimed astatine providing alternatives to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ceding sovereignty of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.
Britain’s authorities successful April enactment connected clasp its woody to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, location to the U.S.-British Diego Garcia aerial base, which had been criticized by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump said in February that the statement was a “big mistake.” Britain forcibly displaced up to 2,000 indigenous Chagossians successful the precocious 1960s and 1970s to found the basal connected the Diego Garcia atoll, but had past twelvemonth agreed to springiness sovereignty to the erstwhile colony of Mauritius while paying 101 cardinal pounds ($135 million) per twelvemonth to unafraid the installation. ($1 = 0.7500 pounds)
